A Million Items Short Of A Full Search
A new search engine called Million Short has arrived on the Internet.
You search, just as you would with Google or your preferred search engine, but it cuts out a required number of results, like a million or a thousand, from the most used web sites.
Click here to try the search.
It might tell you something useful, but on the other hand it’s fun!
Why Has Google News Got Worse?
When I want details on something, say like Dalston Junction station, I will use Google to search for it. Then for any news, there used to be a simple button, which repeated the search on just the news.
That seems to have disappeared and now in most cases I have to open up Google News and start the search again. I supose, it’s an improvement setup by some idiot just out of nappies.
I also find that it always wants me to sign in to my GMail account to store my alerts there. But I prefer them on my standard e-mail, which has nothing to do with GMail.
I suppose they are annoying me, so I use my GMail account, which can then be processed to send me all sorts of spam for products I don’t want.
As they don’t pay enough tax in the UK, I think I might look for another search engine, that does pay the proper rate.
Zopa Mentioned in the Guardian
My Google Alert for Zopa found this report in the Guardian. It’s not particularly relevant to Zopa or peer-to-peer lending as this extract shows.
Not all hairdressers are on one giant VAT dodge, otherwise there would have been some public outcry and we would all, by now, be doing each other’s hair (we would call it peer-to-peer grooming, it would be somewhere between Zopa and a zoo, and it wouldn’t matter what we looked like, because we’d all look the same).
But it does show that you should choose a unique name for your company.
Wimbledon Roof Designer
The title of this post is simple and it is something that you would type into Google, if you wanted to find out who designed the Wimbledon roof.
My page called Wimbledon’s Roof comes up seventh in the list.
This is amazing considering that the page in this blog has only been viewed thirteen times, since it was posted. I would have thought, I would be way down with a hit rate like that!
Searching for this Blog
As I said earlier, I’m now getting hits from Google.
I’ve just found that if I type venison redcurrant celeriac rosti into the search engine, the page I entered is second. Now I know it is a rather specific search, but the recipe is printed on Waitrose venison, so I would have thought it would be on their web site. It’s not!
The page on President Ahmadinejad’s Personal Hygiene is also being looked for and scores high too.
condron.us
This site sent me a reader and it says if you mention them, they’ll send you more traffic.
Let’s see if it happens, if I mention condron.us again.
The Anonymous Widower 